If someone asked me to write an “engineering” strategy, I would emphasize engineering planning, process and principles. Executive management (I spent years in

If someone asked me to write an “engineering” strategy, I would emphasize engineering planning, process and principles. Executive management (I spent years in this role) wants to know more about how, who, what, when and why: how will you manage engineering resources, what kind of engineering resources are required, what and when are engineers tasked from start to finish (established processes and standards), and why is all of this necessary and beneficial for the business and the customer. Strategy needs to be tunable: with an understanding of all of individual parameters, it is possible to adjust strategy for different requirements. That makes a “boilerplate” engineering management/strategy document more useful. One size never fits all.